. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 4.

Published in final edited form as: J Nonparametr Stat. 2008;20(6):459–481. doi: 10.1080/10485250802226435

Table 2.

Simulation study: estimation of fixed effects for unbalanced data with 20% missing. Numbers given are (A) averages and (B) standard deviation across 1000 simulations.

Fixed effects (γ₀ = 1.5, γ₁ = 2, δ₁ = 0.75)
n	CA-LME			Benchmark-LME			Unadjusted-LME

True	1.5	2	0.75	1.5	2	0.75	1.5	2	0.75
(A) Mean
100	1.4956	2.0044	0.7489	1.4948	1.9983	0.7504	1.5337	2.2316	0.8790
200	1.4997	1.9988	0.7523	1.4989	1.9996	0.7508	1.5395	2.2298	0.8830
400	1.4982	2.0003	0.7480	1.4991	2.0006	0.7501	1.5401	2.2334	0.8802
800	1.4997	1.9985	0.7478	1.4996	1.9984	0.7491	1.5395	2.2304	0.8802

(B) Standard deviation
100	0.1156	0.1244	0.1726	0.0972	0.1081	0.1519	0.1165	0.1517	0.1716
200	0.0861	0.0825	0.1217	0.0716	0.0739	0.1105	0.0870	0.1010	0.1209
400	0.0595	0.0575	0.0845	0.0503	0.0490	0.0770	0.0602	0.0712	0.0854
800	0.0434	0.0424	0.0611	0.0363	0.0363	0.0550	0.0438	0.0518	0.0617